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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

J. FINNEGAN.

TRANSOM LIFTER.

No. 396,357. Patented Jan. 15, 1889.

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J. FINNEGAN.

TRANSOM LIFTER No. 396,357. Patented Jan. 15, 1889.

JOHN FINNEGAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THOMAS DEVLTN & ("O., OF SAME PLACE.

TRANSOM-LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,357, dated January 15, 1889.

Application filed September 20, 1838. Serial No. 285,842. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the same thecord G is drawn, whereby the Be it known that 1, JOHN F1NNEGAN,a citishaft 1 is rotated and the toggle-lever opens zen of the United States, residing in the city' or unfolds, thus throwing out the window. and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsyl- The segment 3, which was below, is now above, 5 5 5 vania, have invented a new and useful Imand owing to the connection of the cord 6 with provement in Ventilators, Transoms, &c., what may be denominated the inner end which improvement is fully set forth in the of said segment, the lever D is placed in obfollowing specification and accompanying lique position, so as to be fully out of center, Y drawings. so that the return of the lever to its normal 10 My invention consists of means for convenposition can only be accomplished by rotatiently opening and closing a ventilator, traning the shaft 1. Consequently the windowis som, &c., and retaining the same in either held in open or outward position, or, as it position, as will be hereinafter fully set forth. were, locked, without liability to be closed by Figures 1 and 2 represent perspective views gravity, force of wind, or efforts from without. I 5 of a ventilator or window embodying my in- *heu, however, the window is to be closed,

vention. the cord 4 is drawn, whereby the shaft is ro- Similarletters and numerals of reference intated in reverse direct-ion and the top of the dicate corresponding parts in the two figures. lever D moved inward orbackward and down- Referring to the drawings, A represents a ward. The toggle is also drawn in and caused 2o ventilator, shutter, transom, or other window, to fold. As soon as the top of the lever passes which is pivoted or hinged to the frame B, as the center, the window may complete its downat a. Mounted on said frame is a horizontal ward motion. by gravity of itself and that of rock-shaft, 1, which has secured to it one limb the segment end of the lever, and it seats itof a toggle-lever, C, the other limb whereofis self against the frame in closed position. 2 5 pivoted or hinged to the window A, whereby The toggle is now folded, and as the centers when said shaft is rotated the window will of the toggle, the rod, and the place of conbe thrown out or in, according to the direcnection of the toggle with the window are in tion of rotation of the shaft. line, or nearlyso, the window will be securely On the under side of what maybe termed locked and opening from the outside pre- 0 the outer limb of the toggle-lever C is a vented.

recess, 2, which, when the window is closed, It is evident that a single window or many embraces the shaft 1. windows may be operated in the manner Connected with the shaft is a two-armed stated, two windows being shown in the preslever, D, one arm of which has the segment ent case.

3 5 3 of a pulley on the end thereof. Connected I am aware that it is old to construct a dewith the end of the other arm is a cord, at, vice of this character having an oscillating which passes around a pulley, 5, attached to shaft and a toggle-lever connected to the same the side of the frame ll below the shaft 1. and to a window; but I am not aware that the Secured to the segmentSand passing around particular combination of parts as herein 40 the face thereof in a groove thereon is a cord, claimed is old, wherein pulleys secured to the 6, which is passed around a pulley, 7, attached side of the casing above and below the shaft to the side of the frame above the shaft 1. are used in operating a lever connected to the hen the toggle-lever is opened, it is preshaft; neither is'it common to employ an arm vented from improperly folding or closing in with a segment or projecting arm at its outer 5 downwarddirection by means of alip, 8,'which end, in combination with the shaft, which cmis formed on the end of one lex'er of the fog ployment avoids the necessity of a large-sized gle at the axis thereof and abuts against the pulley, and at the same time has the line of adjacent end of the other lever as a stop. the direction of the power outside the line of (See Fig. the lever, which, as is readily seen, is of ad- I00 50 The operation is as follows: The window is vantage.

shown closed in Fig. 1, and in order to open Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A transom-lifter consisting of an oscillating shaft, a toggle-lever having the lip 8 at the pivotal connection of its parts, and the recessed portion 2, said lever adapted to be pivotally connected to said shaft and a transom, the arm D, rigidly connected to said shaft and having a segn'lent on one end, the pulleys 5 and 7, and the cords 4c and 6, said parts combined substantially described.

2. The combination of a rocking shaft with a two-arm lever secured to said shaft, so as to extend radially therefrom peripherally-grooved,

a segment at the outer end of one of its arms, 15

the lever and passing through the said pulley 2o 5, said parts being combined so as to operate or rock said shaft in opposite directions, substantially as described.

JoHN FINNEGAN.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS.

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